I remember when this movie first came out in theaters thinking how silly it was to even try to sell this thing. Overall it’s not a bad movie and as a viewer you now have the choice of opting for a slightly manicured version, or the grungy period original. The movie also sports some ambitious but terrible low budget CGI scenes, especially at the beginning. This gives the movie a degree of suspense and intrigue over and above the horrors being committed. When the killing starts again, its the returned man who draws attention from the whole town and you can just imagine what how the cop feels about his wife’s old boyfriend showing up. He also tries to get back the girl, but she’s moved on in her life having married the chief cop. He only returns after his father dies and he has come just to close down the mine, much to the detriment of the town folk. The man decides to to just skip town without any word to anyone. The major shift is that the story is now told from the point of view of a woman who was going out with the son of the mine owner when the initial bloodbath occurs. But things settled down after the intro and it quickly fell into the familiar story after that. At the beginning there are a lot of gratuitous gore kills and it seemed that this was going to be a mindless, plotless cash in. Nothing that will tax your brain, but enough intrigue and gore to keep you happy.Ī fairly true to the original remake of the 1981 movie with a few slight changes. It has that cozy small town feel which is exactly what the movie is all about. The low budget, mediocre quality of this somewhat dated production works quite well with the subject matter here. Sure enough night of bloody mayhem ensues. The dance is called off but some of the younger kids decide that they can go ahead and have their own little party at the mining company as one of the boys parents owns the company. The people receiving the hearts and are then killed by Harry in some gory manner. People start finding Valentine heart shaped chocolate boxes only to find bloody oozing human hearts inside.
After all, Harry was supposed to have passed away while in an institution. But after a decades old hiatus, some townsfolk decide that enough time has passed and stage a Valentine’s night dance. The next few years results in relative quiet as the town shuns all Valentine celebrations. The following year, Harry wreaks havoc on Valentine’s day avenging the collapse by killing all those connected to the events leading up to the disaster. This is the setup given in the prologue of the movie. When the rescue crew finally manages to get to the miners they find only one miner, Harry Warden, still alive but now insane, and the other bodies partially eaten. A cave in at a mine on Valentine’s night that was the result of a skipped security procedure results in five miners trapped underground. One of the early 80’s slasher classics that was made as a result of the Canadian movie incentive program of the 70’s and 80’s (A.K.A.